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Syria envoy Annan flies in for talks with Assad

Kofi Annan arrived in Damascus this morning in an attempt to find a political solution to the Syria uprising.

The former UN Secretary General, appointed by the UN and the Arab League to mediate in the crisis, was immediately taken to meet Syrian president Bashar al Assad for talks, according to state media.

His visit to Damascus followed a violent day in which activists said the regime’s forces killed at least 72 people as they bombarded parts of the city of Homs and as the military began to pound the city of Idlib in what is thought to be the prelude to a ground assault.

Arab foreign ministers were also due to hold talks in Cairo with Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov amid hopes for…